EU Aid in the News

IPS - Recovery Could Leave Behind World's Poorest - By Selina Rust, 1/04/10 - The world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the poor, could feel the effects of the global economic crisis for decades, a senior U.N. official warned this week.

Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra told IPS that if the international community does not live up to pledges made under Brussels Programme of Action nearly a decade ago, even the small gains made during 2000-2008 could be reversed. Details ...

IPS - World's poor pawns in EU battle over diplomatic corps -

By David Cronin, 31/03/10: The world's poor appear to have become pawns in a political battle over the European Union's (EU) new diplomatic corps.Catherine Ashton, foreign policy chief for the 27-country bloc, is urging that responsibility for development aid should fall within the scope of the European External Action Service (EEAS) that she is in the process of establishing.

In recent statements, Ashton has argued that if the EU is to have a successful development policy, it must be compatible with its broader strategies on issues such as security.

Yet many observers of European politics suspect that the British baroness is more concerned with seizing control of a sizeable budget than in ensuring that development aid brings tangible benefits to the poor. At 15 billion dollars per year, development aid represents one of the top five areas of spending administered by the EU's executive arm, the European Commission.

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Pambazuka News: Eritrea - Alone against the world -

By Nikolaj Nielsen, 25/11/09, (Pambazuka News): Commenting on events at a Brussels conference for the promotion of peace and human rights in Eritrea, Nikolaj Nielsen reports on a country which Reporters Without Borders ranks lower on press freedom than North Korea. 'Eritrea', Nielsen writes, 'was the promise that never evolved' and a country 'unable to come to terms with lasting peace'.

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Day 1 - 9 November 2009

Opening Addresses

  • Robert Houdek, former Ambassador to Ethiopia and Eritrea, United States
  • Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway and President of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights
  • Bereket Habte Selassie, Distinguished Professor of African Studies and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina and former Chair of the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea

Setting the Scene

  • Elisabeth Chyrum, Human Rights Defender, Director of Human Rights Concern – Eritrea
  • Help Meaza, presented by Tsedal Yohannes
  • Tsedal Yohannes, Citizens for Democratic Rights in Eritrea - CDRiE
  • Statement from Congressman Royce, Subcommitee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade (United States)
  • Alf Hansen, Special Advisor, the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights
  • Dan Connell, Author and former journalist, Distinguished Lecturer in journalism and African politics at Simmons College, Boston

Panel: Human Rights Violations in the Region and Violations of International Law

Day 2 - 10 November 2009

Panel: Eritrea’ s options for Democratisation

  • Meron Estefanos, Eritrean Movement for Democracy and Human Rights - EMDHR

Panel: The Horn Region options for Democratisation

  • Mohamed Ahmed Jama, Director of the Somali Organisation for Community Development Activities (SOCDA) in Mogadishu
 
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